Council for Racial and Social Justice

The Council for Racial & Social Justice is dedicated to promoting and supporting anti-racism & social justice in the CSU and in CFA.

The Council is committed to protecting faculty from discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, age, disability, or veteran’s status. The Council’s responsibilities include being vigilant, assuming leadership, organizing, and taking action to ensure CSU and CFA goals towards the promotion of racially & socially just practices.

Join us for discussions about our union and the latest issues
facing public higher education.

Our initial 10-part series, “Stronger Together,” takes listeners
on a journey through our anti-racism and social justice
transformation work. CFA leaders and activists join host Audrena
Redmond to discuss the principles behind our that work and
how anti-racism and social justice are playing out in their own
chapters, campuses, and lives.

The California Faculty Association released the following
statement on August 29, 2017 from CFA President Jennifer Eagan
regarding our students and faculty who are immigrants protected
under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
program:

“We are appalled that Pres. Donald Trump is considering
elimination of the DACA program. Such a choice would further
expose the irrational hate, racism, and self-defeating behavior
of his administration and do great damage to California and the
nation.

CFA stands in solidarity with the University of Virginia and the
city of Charlottesville in their anger and sadness over what has
been done to their campus and community in the name of white
supremacy and racism.

Three people lost their lives and many more were injured. The
city and campus communities have been done real harm and a
serious injustice, and we wish the families of those we lost,
along with the communities, hope and healing moving forward.

The Assembly Higher Education Committee of the California State
Legislature will hold a public hearing at San
Jose State tomorrow to explore the lack of diversity of the
faculty teaching in the CSU, the Community Colleges, and the UC.

CFA is in the midst of preparing for an historic strike, but
faculty activists converged March 18-19 to discuss social and
educational justice for students and colleagues at our 2016
Equity Conference in Los Angeles.

CFA Associate VP-Affirmative Action Cecil Canton, who is a
co-chair of the bi-annual conference, said, “The conference,
which is held every two years, continues its examination of
justice issues that bedevil our state and nation.”

SAVE THE DATES!

Friday, March 18, 10:30a – Saturday, March 19,
6:00p

Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles

Conference Narrative:

The ongoing violent acts targeted at communities of color, and in
particular Black males, by law enforcement again have brought to
light the need for diverse communities across the country to come
together for systemic change and organized social justice action.

You’ve heard about what happened on South Carolina at the AME
Church. This violence is racially motivated.

We need to connect the dots between the forces that are
destroying our profession and the forces destroying those lives.
We are seeing more people murdered in the streets and we need to
be more than a social justice organization, we need to be an
anti-racist organization.

Anti-racism gives everyone a place in the social justice
movement, it’s about everybody working against racism.

If the union doesn’t do it, the faculty won’t do it, the system
won’t do it.

By Audrena Redmond
CFA Staff, Council for Affirmative Action

This fall marked the campus presentation kickoff of the CFA
Council for Affirmative Action’s “A Journey Into Change”: An
Unconscious Bias Workshop.

The workshop was developed over two years by a CAA task force to
help faculty and administrators become aware of unconscious
biases, preferences, and micro-aggressions that interfere with
the recruitment and retention of diverse faculty.